This time America is fighting the holy war.

Animus toward Iran runs back to the 1979 hostage crisis and the events that shaped a generation of neocons and worse. Now those grievances have an outlet, and the people running this war have stopped pretending it isn't personal. Asked to rate the war on a scale of ten, Trump told White House reporters Wednesday "about a 15."

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has the Crusader symbol of the medieval Kingdom of Jerusalem tattooed on his chest. A nonprofit watchdog has received complaints from more than 200 service members alleging their commanders are invoking biblical end times to justify the war. One NCO said a superior told troops that Trump "has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon." House Speaker Mike Johnson called Islam "a misguided religion" today while defending strikes that killed 165 children in a girls' school.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis designated the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the country's largest Muslim civil rights organization, a terrorist group before the first bomb fell. A federal judge blocked him this week. Bear witness to what this is. Name it in the circles around you. Don't let anyone call it something else.

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